Bill Gates is doing what money should be doing. Using it to solve some serious problems - things that are wrong with the planet.
1. He used some of his cash to tackle malaria - vaccinations in poor nations and access to the medicines
2. Mosquito nets - provide cheap nets to impoverished areas to avoid the anopheles attack in the first place
3. Other important medicines and vaccines including AIDS medications - tackle the multiplier effect by hitting at the source of viral spread
4. Low cost computing resources with partenrships like Cisco etc in parts of the world where its hard to survive let alone go to school
5. Now with his latest effort to reinvent the TOILET. I think this takes the CAKE - literally might do that one day and convert it to fuel or some such.
Low cost 'To go' solutions for the billions still without access to clean water and a place to relieve themselves.
I don't particularly care whether Windows is a good software and what imagination went into the Office products or not but I do take interest in what comes out - personally - and how we deal with it.
Or rather Bill is putting his money where other people's rectum is and that is a good thing!
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/indian-firm-eram-solutions-wins-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-grant-for-e-toilets/articleshow/15516207.cms
ReplyDeleteThank you Meghna for the link.
ReplyDelete'More "power" to Eram' and I am just not saying it. They are going to need it to keep the promise.
You are welcome. I hope the promise is kept.
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